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GAYLORD - Treetops Resort will host the annual Gaylord Wild Game Dinner from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, at the convention center, 3962 Wilkinson Road. Traditionally a ministry of the Gaylord Evangelical Free Church, this is the third year the dinner has been a combined effort of several area churches as a night of fellowship for area sportsmen and sportswomen. The buffet-style dinner features four entrées, including sweet chili spiced duck with Asian vegetables; roasted wild boar loin with a Michigan cherry and chipotle glaze; basil pesto encrusted salmon; and venison meatloaf with a wild mushroom stew, along with salads, rolls, sides and desserts made with Michigan-grown ingredients.

GAYLORD - Rebecca Kiessling is the featured speaker at this year's annual Focus on Life Benefit Dinner at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 29, at the Otsego Club, 696 M-32 East. The event is sponsored by Gaylord Right to Life. Kiessling was conceived in rape and nearly aborted by two back-alley abortionists. She has shared her story with anti-abortion groups and pregnancy centers across the country. Presidential candidate Rick Perry credited her story in helping change his mind on abortion exceptions for unborn children conceived in rape.

The Emmet Conservation District will be holding its annual dinner meeting and election of directors on Tuesday, Oct. 30, at the Emmet County Fairgrounds community center in Petoskey. A buffet dinner will be served at 6 p.m., followed guest speaker Bill Cook, forester and wildlife biologist. The annual meeting and election will follow. A silent auction to benefit upcoming conservation district programs will also take place. Dinner tickets are on sale at $7 per person prior to Oct. 30. If purchased at the door, cost will be $10 per person.

GAYLORD - A benefit dinner to help Chris and Chelsea Engle with medical care and expenses for their daughter, Paige, who was born five weeks premature in January with a heart murmur and congestive heart failure, is scheduled from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29, at the Northland Sportsmen's Club, 1542 Old Alba Road. The spaghetti dinner, which includes two sauces - meat and vegetarian - breadsticks, rolls, tossed salad, beverage and brownies for dessert, is by donation. The benefit also will have a silent auction, a bake sale and other prizes.

Peter Geye, author of the award-winning novel "Safe from the Sea," will be the featured speaker at the Friends of the Petoskey District Library annual meeting and dinner at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 9, at the Petoskey-Bay View Country Club. "Safe from the Sea" is the Indie Lit Award winner for fiction in 2010. Set on the rugged Minnesota shores of Lake Superior, "Safe from the Sea" is a tale of a shipwreck which pits man vs. nature, as well as a poignant portrayal of a complicated father-son relationship.

HARBOR SPRINGS -- The United Methodist Women will be serving a smorgasbord dinner featuring local produce and homemade foods from 5-6:30 p.m. today, Thursday, Aug. 16, at 343 E. Main St. in downtown Harbor Springs. The menu includes turkey, ham, potatoes, vegetables, salads, baked beans, relishes, deviled eggs, rolls, beverages and pie. Price is $10 for adults, $5 for children and preschool children eat free. All proceeds go to the many missions supported by the United Methodist Women.

BOYNE CITY -- The annual summer festival at St. Matthew Church is scheduled for noon-2:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 19, at 1303 Boyne Ave., Boyne City. Highlighting the festival will be "Ma's Authentic Polish Dinner" with a menu consisting of golumpki, Polish sausage, pierogies, dill potatoes, cream cucumbers, dessert, and much more. Dinner ticket prices are $10 for adults, $9 for seniors, $5 children, and free under 4 years old. Larry Czerkies and The Goodwill Polka Gang will be entertaining with live Polish music.

CHARLEVOIX - A benefit spaghetti dinner for a local man wounded in Afghanistan will be next week in Charlevoix. Michigan Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Robert Troy Drebenstedt, 29, of Charlevoix, received severe wounds Aug. 1 in a bomb explosion in Afghanistan that also wounded three others and killed a fourth soldier. His parents, Bob and Marlys Drebenstedt, of Charlevoix, currently are in Texas visiting him at Brooke Army Medical Center. The dinner is being jointly sponsored by the American Legion and V.F.W.

RIGGSVILLE -- Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Riggsville is having its annual festival on Sunday, Aug. 26, at the church grounds on Polish Line Road. Dinner of baked chicken and roast beef, with garden vegetables and dessert will be served from noon-4 p.m. Dinners are $10 for adults and $5 for children 5-12. There will also be raffle tickets with a $1,000 first prize, hourly 50/50 drawing, bingo, poker, kids games, face painting, country store, refreshment stand and more. The church is located on the corner of Polish Line and Church roads in Riggsville, Cheboygan County.

GAYLORD - For two weeks each year, the Otsego County Sportsplex, 1250 Gornick Ave., empties its rink of ice. During this time, the Sportsplex is often used for various events and fundraisers. And this year, on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 7 and 8, it will be used as a crime scene. “In late spring, Jim Driver and Bill Michaels (of the Sportsplex) asked Gaylord Community Productions, Inc. to help with a fundraiser,” said Al Glasby, member of the GCP board of directors. Glasby offered to write a mystery story for the dinner theater that would be held at the Sportsplex in September.